Zhao Shugen squatted beside the wardrobe, puffing on his cigarette, and advised Bi Tiegang:
"You know what the mountains are like.
Your sister-in-law and I work like donkeys every day, trying our best to be looked up to by others.
What a shame, my son did this.
We went house hunting today. How old are we? We paid money and were criticized like an eggplant skin!
My legs are about to break because I can't afford anything, and the Dai family speaks and talks badly about me like a grandson.
The second daughter at home is also a worry.
A few years ago, she came to Kyoto with me. When she saw Dashan and his friends running a restaurant and making a lot of money, she became jealous. She couldn't fit all the things in her house.
When she got home, she kept clamoring to quit her job and open a restaurant. No matter how much we tried to persuade her, she wouldn't listen. How could she be that kind of person?
So, Tiegang, isn't this all a debt owed by children? We closed our eyes the other day, so forget it.
Besides, compared to the ones in my family, you and Avon should be content.
No matter what, no matter whether to buy land or not, Yueyue is thinking about how to make money for the family every day. As long as the children don’t get into trouble and are healthy, what’s not better than that?
Always think positively about everything. If you were me, wouldn't I be mad?
You've made yourself angry, and those two are counting on you to settle the case, so you have to do what you have to do and let them deal with it."
Bi Tiegang remained silent the entire time, feeling hurt by his daughter. His forehead wrinkles deepened, his eyes were red, and he looked like he had aged ten years in an instant.
He was not angry with Bi Yue for insisting on asking for money.
When Liu Yafang hid the passbook, he was still thinking about how to guard against his daughter as he would guard against thieves, and even thought about remembering where the passbook was hidden.
He thought he'd have a good chat with his daughter, and if persuasion didn't work, he'd just pretend the money wasn't there. It hadn't been there before, hadn't it? He took out the bird and gave it to the child.
But what her daughter really thought was that he, as a father, was a burden.
The whole family is a burden!
Whenever Bi Tiegang thought of the way Bi Yue spoke at that time, it was as if someone had stabbed his heart with a knife, and he lost all his fighting spirit.
He sighed deeply, "Alas!"
The whole room was filled with the smell of quick-acting heart pills. Ge Yufeng touched Liu Yafang's chest and saw that she had no energy at all, with dull eyes staring at the ceiling, so she handed her the cup of water.
Liu Yafang pushed him away, sniffed, and tears began to flow again. She stopped scolding Bi Yue, stopped yelling and making a fuss, and was torn between two minds, half like Bi Tiegang, repeating over and over again the harsh words Bi Yue had said, which had broken her heart. She could recite them by heart.
Half of it was out of grievance and worry. She scolded Bi Yue to get out of the house when she felt wronged. If she wanted to take care of that smart child, she would not listen to her at all and would just hide in the house. Then she really left.
She was wondering where her wolf-howling daughter could have gone at this hour of night.
Ge Yufeng looked at Liu Yafang's tears flowing down her cheeks again, and she sighed:
"Why are you doing this? Isn't this what every family does when raising a son or daughter? Are you worried about her? She's just a girl. What if something happens to her? You'll regret it so much."
Liu Yafang sat up quickly and said in a cold voice:
“That can’t be!
How could she get into trouble? Her aunt is such a big deal, and even a contestant like me can't handle it, but she can hire people and curse people, and she can solve it.
Everyone knows that staying in a hotel is a waste of money, how could she afford that?!
I tell you, that damned brat in my family is no ordinary jerk! He's almost beating up his parents!
Doesn’t she think we are a burden? I want to see if she can live on her own! Will she live or die?
"What are you doing, Yavon? What are you talking about? What's the point of saying such harsh words! Let's get back to the point. Yueyue is not a heartless child. Why are you arguing with a child?!"
Liu Yafang glanced at the yard. It was dark outside and she felt extremely anxious.
She wanted to know whether Bi Yue went to school or to the restaurant. She was unsure and worried that her daughter, who was almost as big as a donkey, was wandering around outside. What if she did something that made Chu unhappy and drank too much to go somewhere else?
The sky was getting darker and darker. The irritated Liu Yafang covered her face with her hands and cried out again:
“I gave birth to a person with a rotten heart and lungs, I’m not a human being!
Her father broke his leg to support her studies.
What delicious food has she not eaten in our family over the years? Where did she fall behind with her chopsticks? She has everything that her two younger brothers have!
I peeled off the cotton from my own cotton-padded jacket to keep her warm. If there was a piece of good cloth at home, she could wear it. I picked up the leftovers from her clothes.
If I really treated her as a money-making machine, would I support her education? Wouldn't it be okay for me to marry her off and sell her for money? She said that...
"Wow, in the end, I raised her, she became independent, and because money hurts my heart, we became a burden! I should have strangled her when she was born, wouldn't that have saved some food back then?!"
Liu Yafang cried bitterly, and Ge Yufeng also started to wipe away her tears. She could only repeat her advice:
"Don't say such angry words! Once she gets married and becomes a mother, she'll know what's good for her!"
Bi Yue was sadder than anyone else. She entered Chu Yifeng's house and sat at the door crying. She was a little dazed from crying, and just as she stood up, she fell on the dusty floor. This fall made her feel more sad than heartbroken.
At this moment, she was climbing up and down, hungry and tired, her hands were shaking, but she was cleaning non-stop.
At the door of the unit downstairs, Liang Xiaoxiao, Bi Cheng, and Bi Sheng all looked towards the floor where Chu Yifeng's house was. Seeing that the light was on in the room, Liang Xiaoxiao waved to Bi Cheng.
Bi Sheng was puzzled: "My sister is here?"
Bi Cheng grabbed him and said, "Tomorrow, I'll bring you here tomorrow."
"I won't!" Bi Sheng stubbornly tried to shake off Bi Cheng and rush inside.
He panicked, feeling he had to drag Bi Yue back. He was almost dead, and his sister had never treated him like that. He wanted to tell Bi Yue that if his mother started cursing again, he would take the punishment for her. Go home! He had to go home!
Bi Cheng half hugged the struggling Bi Sheng and said, "Goudan, listen to me. Let me take it easy. She will be able to go home tomorrow. Don't make a fuss. It's tomorrow."
Liang Xiaoxiao knocked on the door.
When she saw a few black marks on Bi Yue's face, she opened the door with a wary and indifferent look in her eyes. When she saw that it was her, she breathed a sigh of relief. However, her eyes immediately turned red and she complained:
"What are you doing? Why didn't you come to me after being kicked out? I have experience."
Bi Yue said expressionlessly, "It's no big deal." But in her mind, she kept repeating Liu Yafang's curse that she would be struck to death by lightning.
Liang Xiaoxiao entered the house in slippers and went straight to the kitchen to fry some noodles, while frying, she advised:
"It's really no big deal. So you have to eat your fill.
I was kicked out of the house at that time. I was much worse off than you. I had nowhere else to go, but I was still thinking about getting married.
I thought it would be great once I got married, with a family and a home, so I wouldn't have to be chased away by this and that. But look at me now, ah! I'm just okay now anyway!" (To be continued.)
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